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Subject: Re: Your opinion regarding the design of a new large tournament ?

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 19:26:07 06/16/05

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On June 16, 2005 at 18:12:55, Madhavan wrote:

>On June 16, 2005 at 17:36:27, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>
>>Hello all
>>
>>I would like to get help and opinions regarding the design of a large
>>all-play-all tournament that I intend to launch.
>
>Great!
>
>>At first sight, I intend to invite the following free engines :
>>- Fruit Massy 2005
>>- Fruit 2.0
>>- TogaII 0.93
>>- ProDeo 1.1
>>- Spike 0.9a
>>- SlowChess WV blitz
>>- Zappa 1.0
>>- Aristarch 4.5
>>- Anmon Massy 5.5.3
>>- List 512 UCI
>>- Pharaon 3.2
>>- SOS 5.1
>>- Ruffian 1.05
>>
>>First question : Did I miss some strong free engine ?
>
>yes,Yace and Crafty.
>but they are less weaker engine.
>
>>According to what I have at home, I will also include a few commercial engines
>>in the tournament :
>>
>>Surely :
>>DeepShredder 9 UCI
>>Shredder 7.04 UCI
>>Chessmaster 10K
>
>you can use Shredder 9 instead which perform quite better than eep version which
>is designed for multi processor.
>
>>Possibly :
>>Ruffian 2.1.0
>>Gandalf 6.0
>>Deep Sjeng 1.6
>
>If you are going to use Ruffian 2.1.0,then It's better to remove Ruffian 1.05
>from the test.the free engine will not show any surprising result as it is old
>and outdated.
>
ruffian 1.05 is still in the top 5 free engines.

>>Second question : are there special parameters that you consider optimal for one
>>ar another of these engines at this kind of playing rate ? Particularly, is
>>there a clearly superior personality for CM10 and for ProDeo in these
>>conditions? at first sight, I intend to use Milan 2.3 or Berean 5.53 for CM 10
>>and default personality for ProDeo.
>
>Maybe you should ask Graham before selecting any chessmaster personality.
>
>>Other conditions will be :
>>
>>- the neutral book will be  based on strong correspondence games : we should see
>>some quite unusual openings
>>- 256 or 512 MB hash (I did not yet decide)
>>- ponder off, no tablebase
>
>what opening book do you use for List and Fruit?
>
>>Most matches will be played on a Dell Inspiron 9200 (centrino2 2 Ghz) with 2048
>>MB ram. Some will be played on a Intel PIV 3.0 Ghz (1024 MB ram).
>>
>>Third question : both PCs have almost identical results at crafty 17.14
>>benchmark test. Is this enough to be sure that playing conditions will be quite
>>similar ?
>
>yes.
>
>>Fouth question :
>>Any suggestion ?
>
>I'd like to see the AXON bench mark result of the first hardware.Axon benchmark
>is available for free and can be downloaded here:www.playwitharena.com under
>download section.
>
>>Thanks all for comments
>>
>>Marc
>>
>>P.S.
>>If you find it interesting I could post the games here...
>
be very happy if you would post the games here . i to would like to see long
time controls. fast games don,t prove much.

gerold.
>Thanks.



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